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...Meanwhile, waste my time playing the Blood and Wine DLC for a month.

Sounds like me on my second playthrough too. I was obsessed with building the perfect settlement before going anywhere. Survival mode is kicking my butt though.

Oh, I actually wish I could console my way to getting infinite materials. But I spec'd a high luck build for my second run here, which allowed me to blast my way through with a two-shot assault rifle and Gauss rifle. That saved me inventory space so I could pick up all those pencils and alphabet cubes to slab into giant wooden slabs.

@Ithildin: I sort of wish for mods, but not terribly. I owe my crafting experience to being a heavy Forge user back in Halo 3, back when being creative meant doing some very unorthodox things. I find it fun to see how one can bend the existing rules of the game to meet a goal. I'd say I spent about half that playtime building, with maybe another day scavenging/trading materials.

Also warning, it's a big album. RIP mobile users.

Dumped a bunch of pictures in there about 3 months ago, and finished the settlement about 4 months ago. For some reason, I forgot about making it all pretty until recently. Were my framerate not crap on PS4, I would incorporate the remainder of Sanctuary from the bridge into the town, but hey, I accounted for that.

Sounds like Fallout time to me. ;)

It's just as buggy as Fallout 3 is. If you can handle that game, you can handle this one. I have only had one crazy bug, am level 35, and I'm playing on PS4 for now. I'm enjoying it though.

Looks pretty awesome! Now if only you could stop time just by looking at it....

Also, when Fallout 4 comes out...expect me to be back here. I'll need advice on making better in-game decisions unlike the Witcher 3, where I managed to get probably the worst possible ending. Being honest and rational is apparently terrible!

@Ithildin: Oh yeah, I'm alive alright. I'm not usually logging in here at work for good reasons, but I check my emails like a hawk, so I'll almost surely respond to PMs or anything. Work is basically me waging war against the engineering server at the university, trying to make simulations work in Linux. It really is package "dependency hell".

@frakle: I'm in graduate school now (second year), so I'm busy jumping between schoolwork and research, whereas this summer I was working full time and part time. Hopefully I'll graduate next spring and finally get a big boy job.

It's a pretty fun distraction, but it sucks the hell out of phone battery. I'm shy of 100 dwellers now, and have yet to have one make it to the National Guard Depot (I'm always closing in on 2.5 days before I have to turn around). Reminds me a lot of Tiny Tower, but there is much more interactivity since attacks can happen randomly.

Also Metal Gear Solid V is so soon...when that comes out, all my productivity goes down the drain. Then Fallout 4.

Still donning dat profile picture

Social media be like:

Yeah, it's awesome news. Here's an article with a cool GIF on the history of gay marriage in the US:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/09/gay-marriage-usa-progress-_n_3248415.html

Thanks all. The job is for an engineering consulting firm, and I mostly do 2D drafting and electrical safety calculations right now. I still do work for the university, so I'm working two jobs. Witcher 3 is awesome though; I've been playing it since launch a little at a time. This game has insane (ambiguous) dialogue consequences...more games of this type should adopt this, without being so black and white.

Not surprised. At a certain level, I think knowing what quality sound is is somewhat like understanding what a fine wine is, or developing an appreciation for spicy flavors. I might be shopping around for headphones soon; now my current headphones are losing the left or right channel depending on how the cord is positioned. My favorite.

Wow, I'm very tempted to buy those now. I use a cheap set of Bose headphones...I could easily be in the market for some new ones.

Wow, I didn't even think of that. Certainly a possibility, but a weird thought to entertain. She's actually leaving the university next week, so I'm going to her farewell luncheon.

Trust me though, graduate school is hardly sunshine and rainbows. For most, it's some of the most stressful and socially-isolating times of their lives. The hours you work are long and the pay is little, and being NOT a college student, you should be eating far better than Top Ramen every day.

...up in the fetal position.

... music playing in that office). She then asked me, "where do you live?", to which I responded with, "don't you know that information already for all the grad students?" Then she said, "yes, but I just wanted to make sure." Apparently she wants to hear me play violin and inspire her children. But ha, the hicky mark; who does she think I am? I'm a freaking engineering graduate student. This is the part where my laughter devolves into deep sobbing and I curl u...

Funny thing music-related thing happened to me the other day -- I was talking to the engineering secretary at the university to pick up my research paycheck, and as I was signing, she looked at my neck and said, "what is that? Is that a hicky mark?" Then I had to explain how it was a violinist mark, which changed the conversation tone completely. Turns out the secretary really wants her two daughters to either pick up the cello or violin. (It's evident from all the classicial musi...

I actually really like this because you are free to play in any way you choose. In a lot of similar smartphone/tablet applications, you are forced to play (and thus interpret) the piece in one fashion. While there are a lot of mechanically-talented musicians, tempo and dynamics obviously play a huge role in the quality and feel of a rendition. I think it's why we are partly interested in hearing others' renditions in the first place.

I know. 0:43 is my favorite moment.